December 17th, 2009 | Climate Change
Three degrees of warming will bring us to the climate last known in the Pliocene era three million years ago. Life goes on, but not as we know it.
Warmer water in the Indian Ocean means rain falls uselessly on the sea instead of the land. In the tropics, major floods …
December 14th, 2009 | Climate Change, Events, International Action
During this week we’ll be putting the Copenhagen discussions into a bit of a context by covering each day what an extra degree of warming might mean for the planet. We start today - and we’re already nearly at 1 degree.
ONE DEGREE
Since the 1850s the industrial developments we …
December 7th, 2009 | Climate Change, Events, Government Action
Some of us joined the Wave in London on Saturday. Between forty and fifty thousand ordinary folk surrounded Westminster in a good-tempered demonstration, supported by video waves from all over the world. You can even see Stretton Climate Care’s rather self-conscious contribution by putting ‘Stretton’ in the search …